I'm talking about the College of Winterhold quest, Revealing the Unseen, which won't update from objective Report to Savos Aren to the next objective Reach Ancanco. However, the scene continues, the Eye of Magnus "explodes", Savos Aren dies, Mirabelle tells me to find him, and Revealing the Unseen is completed. But the next quest, Containment, never starts. As a result, Aren's corpse is lying outside and everyone behaves as if he's still alive.
I've been through the HUGE Dwemer Ruin of Mzulft four times now, aligned the Oculory, talked to the Synod guy trying every combination of his dialogue options, talked to Aren and Mirabelle trying every combination of theirs, and EVERY time the quest glitches in the same place. The objective Report to Savos Aren is never completed, so the College of Winterhold storyline is about 2/3 of the way through and CAN'T be completed.
I won't waste any more time on a game where ANY major quest storyline could bork itself into "oblivion" at ANY time and force me to lose dozens, possibly hundreds, of hours of progress or restart from scratch, HOPING something else won't go horribly wrong because I unwittingly did something out of sequence in the 1st hour of gameplay and won't find out until some 200 hours later when the "bomb" finally drops.
I'd fix Revealing the Unseen myself, but the Creation Kit is SO badly designed that it's utterly illogical and ridiculous to even attempt to use it. Determining any sequence of quest stages, start/completion conditions and script execution order is a total nightmare of hunting through multiple dialog boxes with no obvious connection between them. Whoever programmed this mess is a sadist who never intended it to be at all user-friendly.
Bethesda are very good at creating huge expansive beautiful virtual worlds to explore, but useless at making the mechanics of them actually work. Their vision far exceeds their ability to realise it. I bought Skyrim a month ago. The user interface is a joke even with SkyUI installed, I've had numerous random CTD's and lockups, seen Dragons circling ever higher without attacking, Mammoths and Elk levitating then falling, had Dragon skeletons falling out of the sky, Horses rocketing off sideways when I dismount, NPC's getting stuck forcing me to Sprint at them to bump them so they'll get unstuck and go where they're supposed to, and bugs in MAJOR storyline quests that render them uncompletable.
I've spent 10 years of my life trawling for utilities and mods to fix games that shouldn't have needed fixing in the first place (Morrowind, Oblivion and now Skyrim). I'm sick of wasting my time so that's it. Decision made for my own sanity. I have ZERO faith in Bethesda to EVER release a game that's not bugged to hell OR fix anything that's wrong, and I'm not willing to wait years for the Unofficial Skyrim Patch authors to eventually fix things FOR them. I'm finished with Elder Scrolls and will NEVER buy another Bethesda game.
I'm going back to playing games I KNOW I can enjoy without encountering major game-breaking bugs, like Crysis 1 & 2, Far Cry 1 & 2, Doom 3, Quake 4, etc. Sorry folks, but this means I'm leaving UESP. I simply can't face getting depressed reading other people's numerous problems and knowing I have the same problems and can't fix them.
I completely understand from where you're coming from but this is highly unnecessary.
